Peter Humphry Greenwood FRS FIBiol (21 April 1927 – 3 March 1995) was an English

ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...

. Humphry married fellow student Marjorie George (1924 – 2006) in 1950. He was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

in 1985. He was known for his work on the species flocks of

cichlids Cichlids are fish from the family (biology), family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses (Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have c ...

in the

African Great Lakes The African Great Lakes ( sw, Maziwa Makuu; rw, Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift. They include Lake Victoria, the second-largest fresh water lake in the ...

, and for studies of the phylogeny and systematics of

teleost Teleostei (; Greek ''teleios'' "complete" + ''osteon'' "bone"), members of which are known as teleosts ), is, by far, the largest infraclass in the class Actinopterygii, the ray-finned fishes, containing 96% of all extant species of fish. Tel ...

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The cichlid fish '' Diplotaxodon greenwoodi'' is named for him. Also '' Brachyaetoides greenwoodi'' Bonde, 2008 is named for him. As is '' Enteromius greenwoodi'' (

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1967).

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* 1927 births 1995 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society English ichthyologists 20th-century British zoologists Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences {{UK-zoologist-stub

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